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Midway Dep EWR: +5.2 NYC: +5.1 LGA: +3.9 JFK: +2.9

I might have been misunderstood - but the firefighters I know yes, do not WISH for people's homes to catch fire - but on a dead quiet shift absolutely 100% get excited when a call comes in. I thought it was a good parallel because of course they are not hoping for somebody's livelihood to be destroyed or for lives to be lost...but if a fire were to break out - they want to be the ones responding. We have no control over the weather. Regardless - we can take the weather ethics debate to banter - I am 100% sure that zero people here are 'wishing' for people's homes to be destroyed is my point. But we are weather enthusiasts - we have NO CONTROL over it - we are going to track interesting weather with fascination and interest. It doesn't mean we are hoping for dead people.

Records: Highs: EWR: 82 (1990) NYC: 82 (1990) LGA: 77 (1990) JFK: 68 (2002) Lows: EWR: 17 (1992) NYC: 13 (1911) LGA: 19 (1992) JFK: 18 (1992) Historical: 1843: A great snowstorm affected areas from the Gulf of Mexico to Maine. Shelbyville, TN received 21 inches. Eight inches fell at Little Rock, AR. 10 inches fell at Memphis, TN and Washington, D.C. and a foot was reported at Baltimore, MD, New York City, NY and Philadelphia, PA. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1870: 24 trains between Springfield, MA and Albany, NY were blocked by a big snowstorm. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1885: On this date through the 21st, Pointe-des-Monts, Quebec Canada, received 98 inches of snowfall. 1942 - Two tornadoes, 24 minutes apart, struck Baldwin, MS, resulting in 65 deaths. (David Ludlum) 1942: A deadly tornado outbreak occurred over the Central and Southern US on March 16-17th. The tornado outbreak killed 153 people and injured at least 1,284. The best estimate indicates this event contained 13 F3 tornadoes, 6 F4s, and one F5. The F5 tornado occurred north of Peoria, Illinois, in the towns of Alta, Chillicothe, before crossing the Illinois River and striking the town of Lacon. A quarter of the homes in Lacon were destroyed, and debris was carried for 25 miles. 1975 - A single storm brought 119 inches of snow to Crater Lake, O,R establishing a state record. (The Weather Channel) 1986 - A small but rare tornado touched down perilously close to Disneyland in Anaheim CA. (Storm Data) 1987 - Softball size hail caused millions of dollars damage to automobiles at Del Rio TX. Three persons were injured when hailstones crashed through a shopping mall skylight. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) (The Weather Channel) 1988 - A winter storm produced heavy snow in the Central Rockies. Winds gusted to 80 mph at Centerville UT. Eighteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date, including Tallahassee FL with a reading of 24 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - A winter storm brought heavy snow and high winds to the southwestern U.S. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Lovelock NV, Salt Lake City UT, and Fort Carson CO. Snow fell at a rate of three inches per hour in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced large hail and damaging winds from northwest Florida to western South Carolina. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Floridatown FL. Sixteen cities across the northeastern quarter of the nation reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 78 degrees at Burlington VT smashed their previous record for the date by 23 degrees. New York City reported a record high of 82 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2002: Anchorage, Alaska on the 16th and 17th: Alaskan snowstorm dumps 28.7 inches of snow on Anchorage, breaking the old daily record of 15.6 inches. Snow amounts range from 24 to 29 inches at lower elevations (Ref. WxDoctor) 2005: A storm surge pushed 33 foot waves, rocks and tons of ice crashing along the Avalon and Baie Verte Peninsulas on the east coast of Newfoundland Canada, causing millions of dollars in damage. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 2012: Record heat continues in the Mid-West see the 17th for more information. • 82 degrees at Chicago-O'Hare was the earliest it has been this warm in Chicago. Previously... the earliest 82 degree reading was not until March 27, 1945. • Chicago set a new record for most number of 80 degree days in a March with three... the previous record for greatest number of 80 degree days during March was 2 set back in 1986. • March 16th was the 3rd consecutive day above 80...which shattered the previous record for earliest in the season to have 3 consecutive 80 degree days. Previously the earliest Chicago has ever seen 3 consecutive 80 degree days was back on April 14-16 1976. (Ref. NWS)

I hope its not bad already clear here in Charlotte so not sure if that would translate the same up there well before mid day.

Going to be lit up down that way today. That power outage map is going to look pretty wild I imagine

Feels like the floor of today (assuming we get socked in with crapvection) still feels significant.

Nice

The firemen I have known would never say anything like that. Not faulting your enthusiasm but you must not know any actual firefighters. I don’t believe they generally engage in thoughtless weenie wishing for fires to start.

Yes. February 2018 is probably best comparison for this region. It's incredible that the Southwest/West is seeing such an extreme event so soon after the September-October 2024 heat during which Phoenix set or tied daily records on 21 consecutive days and easily set new September and October monthly records.

Yeah nothing burger here but down east is the real threat.

Not so sure on the winds today or tonight. The window for gusts 40-50+ mph is probably quite small...like a 1-2 hour window (if that) just out ahead of the cold front when we mix better. Just too much precipitation around today/tonight to probably sufficiently mix. Going to have to rely on embedded convection really but instability overall is going to be pretty weak

59 / 58 about 0.23 in the bucket overnight. Windy - southerly flow / scattered storms with the worst / strongest storms likely south and west. Wild day in PA from heavy / strong thunderstorms to a period of snow. Ridge west this week trough east after the strong lakes cutting storm monday. Colder Tue / Wed before moderating towards normal Thursday and beyond with overall near normal period. the last 5-7 day looks back and forth perhaps warmer overall.

Down to 44 with moderate rain. That was quite a storm. Took a couple of screenshots from a video I took. Sent from my Pixel 10 Pro using Tapatalk

Maybe I’m just optimistic but we had a lot of rain this morning and it’s thick overcast with storms progged to initiate in the next 2-3 hours. Barely windy too. Don’t ever remember significant severe events here with late morning to noon timing and cloudy/rainy antecedent conditions. Definitely some juice, anything that goes up is popping lightning even small cells to our east but this does not have the look of a classic event here in central NC. Parameters are concerning but with CAPE lacking we might not maximize the potential, or so I hope

My wife had to go to Hanover MD this morning for Maryland department of emergency management activating from 10 - 10 today. She has to sit in a building with a bunch of emergency management people all day waiting for something to happen,she took a cot in case she has to spend the night there, i'm hoping she gets to come home early otherwise it's Popeyes for dinner.

You should have did a powerpoint presentation on the weather threats were facing today and offered counseling to those individuals.

There are already a number of TORs spinning up down south and you can’t tell me they needed a lot of sun at 8am.

Low of 49 with .09” of rainfall. Good morning to all, on what should be a very busy weather day. Some people in here may see some of their heaviest snowfall rates of the season later tonight, albeit brief. Beginning to think things won’t be too too dramatic up this way with regard to severe potential but we’ll see what mother nature stirs up. Timing of the main line looks to be pretty late in the day for those of us here in the east, not sure how much pops off out ahead of that, as there seems to be some conflicting forecasts there. In any case, batten down the hatches!

Ripping right now. What a last week of weather. I need a break.

S&S is a problem. And people can't sift through their BS like we can.

I certainly wouldn't trade Maxey. Best player on the team, young, hustles like a mofo and a good personality/locker room guy. And you would easily get a high 1st rounder for him if not more....

I’m into working out at the buffet line. It’s such a great feeling. Great pic though. What a hot couple.

I'm sure more shingles will rip off tonight. Lost a few in Nov. South winds are the worst for our house.

Let’s keep the ethics debates in banter. We know severe weenies will be rooting for an F5 even as it barrels towards their house and launches them into the stratosphere.

Not a big HRRR "fan" haha. Not sure of exact verification scores but I know they're not real good